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[African American baseball players from Morris Brown College, with boy and another man standing at door, Atlanta, Georgia] – Antique Print

[African American baseball players from Morris Brown College, with boy and another man standing at door, Atlanta, Georgia], [1899 or 1900] — historic photograph
[African American baseball players from Morris Brown College, with boy and another man standing at door, Atlanta, Georgia], [1899 or 1900]. Historic photograph from the Baseball collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic photograph captures [African American baseball players from Morris Brown College, with boy and another man standing at door, Atlanta, Georgia] in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Morris Brown College, the Atlanta school founded in 1881 by the African Methodist Episcopal Church, is the focus here, with its ballplayers posed in a group alongside a boy and another man at a doorway. The picture comes from the album *Negro Life in Georgia, U.S.A.*, which W.E.B. Du Bois and his colleagues at Atlanta University assembled for the 1900 Paris Exposition to show Black American life beyond stereotype. Taken around 1899 or 1900, it presents Black students and athletes as educated, organized and modern. Collegiate baseball was becoming a common part of campus life in those years, and this group portrait preserves a glimpse of that social world.

Created / published[1899 or 1900]
Medium1 photographic print : gelatin silver.
GenrePortrait photographs 1890-1900.Group portraits 1890-1900.Gelatin silver prints 1890-1900.
NotesIn album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 4, no. 337. A microfilm surrogate is also available. Forms part of: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsMorris Brown College--People--Georgia--Atlanta--1890-1900. African Americans--Sports--Georgia--Atlanta--1890-1900. Baseball players--Georgia--Atlanta--1890-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,246 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-190573

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